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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

~Evo Morales

Topics: About Aside Changing Consumption Debt Earth Ecological Economic Giving Giving Up Individualism Luxury Models Pay People Planet Planet Earth Selfishness Setting Thinking Up

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In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Consumption Diabetes Increased Per Sugar

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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

~Gary Bauer

Topics: Adapt America At Least One Consumption Countries Habits Least Move One Way People Poor Poor Countries Quickly Way

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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Balance Budget Consumption Entire Fair Federal Just Measurements Now Out Replace System Tax Tax System Throw Years

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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Abolish Balance Budget Consumption Corporate Eliminate Federal Income Income Tax Irs Need Tax

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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Abolish Consumption Corporate Could Eliminate Federal If I Could Income Income Tax Irs Magic Magic Wand Replace Tax Wand Wave Would

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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Been Consumption Debate Discussion Fair Great Legislation National Over Point Signed Start Starting Starting Point Tax Think Up Women Written I Think

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The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Access Alone Broader Cannot Communities Companies Consumer Consumption Efforts Explained Foods Healthy Individual Issues Linked Low-Income Marketing Neighborhoods Our Poorest Preferences Rates Rather Soda Themselves

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'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

~George Lois

Topics: Behavior Characters Consumers Consumption Convince Early Every Excessive Fulfillment Glamorous Lucky Mad Mad Men Men Morally More Nicely Nothing Possible Repugnant Sort Stereotype Strikes Than Up Vintage 1960S

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

~George Santayana

Topics: Articles Change Conception Consumption Currency Daily Experience Fraud Like Small Symbol

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